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tRY IT NOWThe divorce after 13 years that has seemed inevitable for months now appears at hand. The Core will be no more.
The Post has confirmed reports that the Rangers are in advanced discussions with the Ducks about sending Chris Kreider to Anaheim, with a well-placed source telling The Post that talks will continue on Wednesday.
Kreider, who joined the Blueshirts for the 2012 playoffs and is the club’s most senior player, has two years remaining on his contract at an annual cap hit of $6.5 million per. At this point it is unclear what would be coming back in the deal.
The separation between the club and its third all-time leading goal scorer (326) has been forecast for months following a public breach last November, when contents of a league-wide memo circulated by Chris Drury in which the GM cited Kreider by name — as well as Jacob Trouba — as being available on the market were leaked.
Now it appears that Kreider — who has a 15-team no-trade list — will be joining the former Rangers captain in Orange County.
Kreider, who turned 34 at the end of April, is coming off the worst full season of his career in which he was plagued by multiple injuries. The winger recorded 22 goals and only eight assists in 68 games while scoring only one power play goal after the calendar flipped to 2025.
The Boston College product trails only icons Rod Gilbert (406) and Jean Ratelle (336) on the franchise goal-scoring leaderboard and is 10th in points (582).

He is the all-time leader in Rangers playoff goals (48) and points (76), the goal total of course including No. 20’s 2024, Game 6 third-period hat trick in Carolina that propelled the Blueshirts to the conference finals against Florida. The Rangers went to the conference finals five times in his career, once to the Cup Final in 2014.
If Kreider is indeed moved, his closest friend, Mika Zibanejad, might be more amenable to waiving his full no-move clause if asked. The two men have grown inseparable over the last number of years.
The Blueshirts entered last season with the core that had been in place from 2019-20 that featured Kreider, Zibanejad, Trouba, Igor Shesterkin, Artemi Panarin, Adam Fox, Filip Chytil, Ryan Lindgren and Kaapo Kakko with K’Andre Miller and Alexis Lafreniere joining the band the following season.
When Kreider goes — joining Trouba, Chytil, Lindgren and Kakko, up to now — the core will be no more.